A Personal Collection
This section features images, quotes, and bibliographic information about books in my collection of materials on suicidality.
The purpose of this section is to demonstrate for the layperson the breadth and depth of materials that exist, both fiction and non-fiction, and also to showcase the artfulness of the material. Please enjoy!
“After I began to recover in the hospital it occurred to me to wonder…
why I had been visited by such a calamity.” (p. 77)
“Only those who desire death and have come not to fear it can believe
that through death, their need to belong and to be effective will be met.” (p. 226)
“if I have learned anything from the trenches of loss, it’s that nothing makes sense.” (p. 140) 
Everything – everything within her, everything without – was abandoning her.” (p.339) 
“He folded his hands together and looked at me and said, ‘Miss Gilling, we have decided that you would benefit from group therapy.’ (p. 197) 
“A suicidal depression is a kind of spiritual winter, frozen, sterile, unmoving.” (103) 
“Things like being suicidal and living in a car don’t promote the best hygiene.” 
“Many, many metal patients have killed themselves in locked wards, strangling themselves with dental floss or hanging themselves with shower curtains or cutting themselves with lightbulbs or drowning themselves in toilet bowls.” (p.162) 
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces,
and the medical community wears a number of those faces.” (p.232)
